Photo: JonRidinger · CC BY 3.0Ravenna has lower household incomes than 74% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Ravenna is better than 31% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (A−). Below the poverty line: 19.1% of residents, next to 13.3% across Ohio. About one in seven work in Ravenna; the top destination outside it is Akron (8%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Ravenna apart on work
No single place dominates Ravenna’s commute
The biggest draw, Akron, gets only 8% of working residents, and 51% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Ravenna residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Ravenna draws workers from far and wide
The 6,781 jobs in Ravenna are filled from a wide area. Ravenna’s own residents hold 10% and the ten next-biggest home towns 30%; the other 60% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The four measures behind Ravenna’s grade
Job access by car holds Ravenna’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ravenna could be anywhere from C− to B.
Commuting out of Ravenna: the destinations
Where Ravenna clocks in
8% of workers
5% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Who leaves Ravenna for work, and who comes in
On a workday 4,276 residents head out to work, 674 work right here, and 6,107 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13,000 people are in Ravenna on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.37 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Ravenna’s employers do
6,781 jobs are based in Ravenna.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ravenna, 2013 → 2023: 7,705 → 6,781. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ravenna’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Ravenna’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ravenna workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,844 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Ravenna’s commute, mile by mile
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Ravenna is easy on foot, hard by bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,369 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.6% of Ravenna households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Ravenna’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ravenna is 1,939th of 2,507 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| 4 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 5 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,937 | Ivins UT | 11,546 | $78K | 11.8% | 6.7% | 10% | C |
| 1,938 | Markham IL | 11,274 | $57K | 18.0% | 8.7% | 4% | C |
| 1,939 | Ravenna OH | 11,136 | $60K | 19.1% | 6.0% | 14% | C |
| 1,940 | Malone NY | 11,677 | $68K | 17.5% | 3.0% | 47% | C |
| 1,941 | Madison Township OH | 11,118 | $58K | 13.9% | 5.3% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Ravenna, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Ravenna: questions
What is the median household income in Ravenna?
$59,971 (±$15,905) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ravenna?
19.1%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ravenna?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ravenna work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Akron (8%, 16 mi), Streetsboro (5%, 8 mi), Kent (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ravenna walkable?
Ravenna is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ravenna without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ravenna, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ravenna
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.